Example sentences of "but [prep] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dermavate is , as I say , it 's more potent , it 's probably not so suitable for keeping going with , but for jumping on top of things in a hurry , it 's fine . |
| 2 | Some children will instantly start building houses or cars , telling me what they 're doing , and I know immediately that toys are not just for children , but for sharing with parents . |
| 3 | Whether he wins or not , I shall remember him for his fearlessness , for not being content to run like a solitary god between the gunpowder hills of Lanzarote , but for running in the race instead . |
| 4 | It is a truism , but worth stating for all that : as teachers , academics ’ first responsibility is to their teaching ( i.e. to their students ) ; it is not to their research . |
| 5 | The suggestion made was that it was not about economic development , but about buying off the nationalist community . |
| 6 | And this we come at not through consulting Joyce 's biography , but through attending to the forces at work in his writing . |
| 7 | Below decks , Grace was shipshape , but after calling on Lord Jim Nenna always felt impelled to start cleaning the bright-work . |
| 8 | I did manage to find the address of the company through an advert , but after writing to them I have had no reply and so I am unable to recharge the 2-lb of resin that I have used . |
| 9 | Detectives say she was too terrified to tell anyone , but after hearing about two similar attacks recently , she finally came forward . |
| 10 | He believed that the PASOK movement could make a real contribution to European as well as Greek politics , but after serving as education minister in Papandreou 's second administration ( when he tried to reintroduce classical Greek into the school curriculum ) , he left to found his own ill-starred party , the Greek Radical Movement . |
| 11 | I apologize for using the semimetaphorical terms ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ in this essay , but after puzzling over the matter for some time I can see no other way of setting about it . |
| 12 | But after speaking to a group of her most trusted advisers , she turned her anger into action . |
| 13 | When we received it we thought it was great , but after chewing on them for a while , mum got a bit worried as the pieces we were chewing off looked like hard plastic . |
| 14 | Earnings per share in the period were five p but after taking into account exceptional Carpet Right gain this is reduced to two point eight p and compares to last year 's pro forma earnings per share of one point four million which included losses on the closing down of our operations . |
| 15 | For many years it was thought that the wreck was a Spitfire , but after delving through archives at the RAF Museum along with information gleaned from various specialist publications , it was discovered that the aircraft was a Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk flown by a Canadian pilot , Harold Fraser-English of 400 Squadron , operating out of Weston Zoyland . |
| 16 | He picked it up crossly , but after listening for a few moments , his expression softened and he nodded twice . |
| 17 | But after listening to Lord Ritchie Calder speaking about Pugwash , the committee of scientists to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons , and Steven Rose condemning the use of CS gas in Northern Ireland , I could never again retreat into the comforting vision of the scientist as an impartial observer . |
| 18 | He said he considered the move into player/mgt in the summer , but after thinking about it decided it was too much hard work . |
| 19 | He had also brought a chess manual , because he had heard that children could play chess brilliantly , but after ski-ing with Sam for a few days he decided that there was no call to be beaten by a five-year-old at two things at once . |
| 20 | Turnover rose 3 per cent to £279m , but after allowing for acquisitions and divestment sales , declined by 6 per cent . |
| 21 | ‘ But after rowing about it for ages , I came home from work the other day and it was n't on . |
| 22 | But after deciding in 1962 to buy American , Britain in effect cut back its space ambitions from major to minimal . |
| 23 | But after appearing on Central Television the sanctuary has been inundated with calls from people offering the animals a home . |
| 24 | I do n't know which is most unlikely , but after studying in Louisiana , and spending a ghastly summer and a magical Christmas in New York , I have been savagely bitten by the travel bug , while writing the novel has become a way of life . ’ |
| 25 | But after walking for about fifty yards we came to another thinner wall of barbed wire with a gate in it . |
| 26 | I could make smaller movies , but after running in the Olympics why should I go back to High School ? |
| 27 | But after plunging towards the relegation zone with just four points from the previous 21 , he admitted : ‘ We have been going through a bad time and We needed this win . ’ |
| 28 | His choice of roles has always been intelligent , but after starring with Marlon Brando in the screen legend 's first major role for years , is paying the price . |
| 29 | But after winning in Galway and on the Circuit of Ireland , McHale could n't keep the momentum going in Killarney last weekend and found himself virtually out of the hunt after just one stage . |
| 30 | ‘ We could have just announced that free tickets were available at the door but after talking to the police about it we decided that was a bad idea . |